| Digital Rhetoric, literae humaniores and Leibniz's dream |
Willard McCarty, King's College, London, gives the 2017 Besterman lecture. |
Willard McCarty |
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| Strachey Lecture: The Continuing Evolution of C++ |
Stroustrup discusses the development and evolution of the C++, one of the most widely used programming languages ever. |
Bjarne Stroustrup |
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| Core Course: Architects or Artisans? The Builders of the Medieval Cathedrals |
This lecture forms part of series entitled Introduction to the History of Art, a core course taught to the first year undergraduate History of Art students. |
Gervase Rosser |
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| Life as a trial statistician – the good, the bad and the ugly |
Professor Jonathan Cook is a Senior Medical Statistician at the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit. |
Jonathan Cook |
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| Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture - Andrew Wiles |
In the first Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture, in partnership with the Science Museum, world-renowned mathematician Andrew Wiles lectured on his current work around Elliptic Curves followed by conversation with Hannah Fry. |
Andrew Wiles, Martin Bridson, Mary Archer, Hannah Fry |
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| Avi Shlaim - A Jordanian Perspective on Israel |
Prof. Avi Shlaim reviews the history of the Jordanian-Israeli relations, and considers how Israel is viewed and understood from the Jordanian side |
Avi Shlaim, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| How we change behaviour and what to do to support it: lessons from randomised controlled trials and other research |
Professor Paul Aveyard, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences gives a talk on behavioural change in evidence based medicine. |
Paul Aveyard |
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| And then the magic happens! Can realist synthesis really be systematic? |
Dr Andrew Booth gives a talk for the Realist Reviews and Realist Evaluations short course. |
Andrew Booth |
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| The State of the Universe |
Our Universe was created in 'The Big Bang' and has been expanding ever since. Professor Schmidt describes the vital statistics of the Universe, and tries to make sense of the Universe's past, present, and future. |
Brian Schmidt |
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| Lessons From a Study in Failure - The Force Intervention Brigade and the United Nations Mission in Congo, 2012-2017 |
This seminar is concerned with the broad issues raised by the UN’s long-running mission in the DRC and what it tells us about the deeper challenges facing the UN as it continues to grapple with civil war and protection crises in different parts of Africa. |
Mats Berdal |
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| Wall Street Goes to War |
In this provocative seminar, Dr Sean McFate, author, novelist and expert in foreign policy and national security strategy, looks at the neglected area of the economics of war. |
Sean McFate |
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| The Seduction of Curves: The Lines of Beauty That Connect Mathematics, Art and The Nude - Allan McRobie |
Allan McRobie explains how the key to understanding the language of curves is Rene Thom’s Catastrophe Theory, and how remarkably the best place to learn that language is perhaps in the life drawing class. |
Allan McRobie |
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| Working 'up' and 'out': how qualitative researchers approach analysis |
Dr John MacArtney gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. |
John MacArtney |
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| Maths v Disease - Julia Gog |
Can mathematics really help us in our fight against infectious disease? Join Julia Gog as we explore exciting current research areas where mathematics is being used to study pandemics, viruses and everything in between. |
Julia Gog |
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| Henry VI, Part 2 |
Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a 2017 lecture on the early history play, Henry VI, Part 2. |
Emma Smith |
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| Birth of the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi Controversy on the ‘Arab Question’ (1910-12) |
On 'the mother' of all ensuing Mizrahi–Ashkenazi ethnic controversies. |
Moshe Behar, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Jews, Israel and Debate: Understanding Israel in the Diaspora |
Why and how should we study Diaspora Jews' relation to Israel? |
Ilan z Baron, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Soft War: The Ethics on Unarmed Conflict |
Soft war tactics, including cyber-warfare and economic sanctions, propaganda and non-violent resistance are of increasing importance but largely unexplored in just war theory. This talk illuminates this neglected aspect of international conflict. |
Michael L. Gross |
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| The Merry Wives of Windsor |
Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. |
Emma Smith |
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| All's Well That Ends Well |
Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s comedy All's Well That Ends Well. |
Emma Smith |
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| Superconductors: Miracle Materials |
An introduction to the fascinating world of superconductors and the many surprising phenomena they exhibit, from zero resistance to quantum levitation. |
Andrew Boothroyd |
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| Quantum physics and the nature of computing |
How can we test a quantum computer? An exploration of some of the theoretical puzzles of this field and how we can investigate them with experimental physics. |
Jelmer Renema |
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| Superconductors: why it’s cool to be repulsive |
A family-friendly demonstration of superconductors in action. Fran explores the low temperatures we need to make them work, and how we can use superconductors for levitating trains. |
Fran Kirschner |
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| Cymbeline |
Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on one of Shakespeare’s later plays, Cymbeline. |
Emma Smith |
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| Closing the Gap: the quest to understand prime numbers - Vicky Neale |
Prime numbers have intrigued, inspired and infuriated mathematicians for millennia and yet mathematicians' difficulty with answering simple questions about them reveals their depth and subtlety. |
Vicky Neale |
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| Giving Up The Gun: Disengaging from Politically Motivated Violence in Northern Ireland |
Is de-radicalisation of former terrorists helpful or even possible? This presentation explores the processes involved in leaving social movements or disengaging from terrorist activities. |
Neil Ferguson |
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| A little known law of numbers |
Professor Jeffrey Aronson, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare lecture series, |
Jeffrey Aronson |
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| Cassini-Huygens: Space Odyssey to Saturn and Titan |
Public Lecture organised by the Aeronautical Society of Oxford in conjunction with the Department of Physics. |
David Southwood |
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| The End of Peace and Optimism: Assessing the Changing Character of War |
A 'deliberately provocative' assessment of contemporary conflict. |
Rob Johnson |
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| Critical Appraisal and EBM in the Real World |
The overwhelming volume of evidence and its lack of relevance to patient care and decisions means health professionals require skills to sift evidence more efficiently: discarding what doesn't make a difference to focus on evidence that matters for health |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland on writing and community |
Writers Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland read from their work, and discuss why they write, who they write for, their imagined audiences, and how their writing relates to their identities. |
Selma Dabbagh, Courttia Newland |
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| M. NourbeSe Philip on the haunting of history |
M. NourbeSe Philip reads from She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988) and Zong! (2008) as she describes her poetic development. |
M NourbeSe Philip, Marina Warner, Matthew Reynolds, Elleke Boehmer |
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| Editors and contributors, The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing |
Profs Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein speak about the genesis of their new Cambridge History project, Dr Gail Low discusses the networks and institutions of Caribbean-British writing. |
Susheila Nasta, Mark Stein, Gail Low, Henghameh Saroukhani, Florian Stadtler |
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| Aminatta Forna on writing memory and trauma in The Memory of Love |
Aminatta Forna gives a reading from her award-winning novel, The Memory of Love (2010), and discusses it with Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee. She talks about the psychology of war and healing after conflict, and about love, betrayal and complicity. |
Aminatta Forna, Ankhi Mukherjee |
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| Nadifa Mohamed on travelling, home and belonging in Black Mamba Boy |
Nadifa Mohamed reads from and discusses her debut novel, Black Mamba Boy (2010), based on her father’s travels across the Horn of Africa before settling in Britain. |
Nadifa Mohamed, Kate Wallis |
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| D-Empress Dianne Regisford presents ‘Hersto-rhetoric? Na so today!!!’ |
D-Empress Dianne Regisford presents a performance installation that explores the notion of the liberated woman from an African feminist perspective. |
D-Empress Dianne Regisford, Rev J, Erica Lombard |
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| Daljit Nagra on voice and identity in Look We Have Coming to Dover! |
Daljit Nagra reads from and discusses his celebrated debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! (2007). In conversation with Dr Rachael Gilmour and the audience, he speaks about how and why he writes his poetry, and the readers for whom he writes. |
Daljit Nagra, Rachael Gilmour |
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| Bernardine Evaristo on writing Britain’s Black histories |
In conversation with Dr Zoe Norridge and Marsha Hutchinson, Bernardine Evaristo reads from and discusses her remarkable verse novel, The Emperor’s Babe (2001), which tells the story of a African girl growing up in Roman London in 211 AD. |
Bernardine Evaristo, Zoe Norridge, Marsha Hutchinson |
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| Kamila Shamsie on writing history in A God in Every Stone |
Author Kamila Shamsie reads from her 2014 novel A God in Every Stone, and discusses it with Prof. Elleke Boehmer and the audience. |
Kamila Shamsie, Elleke Boehmer |
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| Readers and Readings |
Prof. Elleke Boehmer and Dr Erica Lombard consider how our reading experiences are shaped by various factors, from publishers’ decisions about book covers to the text itself. |
Elleke Boehmer, Erica Lombard |
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| The Problem of Evil |
Oxford students discuss the problem posed by the existence of evil in the world to the Christian and Hindu gods. |
Alice Harberd, Frazer MacDiarmid, Luke Martin, Tilak Parekh |
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| Making trials more efficient: Trial Forge and how you can help |
Trials are important; very often they are also inefficient. Trial Forge aims to improve trial efficacy by identifying and then filling gaps in trial methods research. |
Shaun Treweek |
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| Using mixed methods in health psychology: Reflections on research design, epistemology, and practicalities |
In this talk, Dr Felicity Bishop will critically reflect on mixed methods research that she has conducted and discuss the philosophical and technical challenges of mixed methods. |
Felicity Bishop |
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| Double Seminar on Biomedical Technology and Moral Bioenhancement |
In this double seminar, Erasmus visitors Laurentiu Staicu and Emanuel-Mihail Socaciua discuss the rise of biomedical technology and some of the legal issues of moral bioenhancement |
Laurentiu Staicu, Emanuel-Mihail Socaciua |
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| The Law of the Few - Sanjeev Goyal |
The study of networks offers a fruitful approach to understanding human behaviour. Sanjeev Goyal is one of its pioneers. In this lecture Sanjeev presents a puzzle: |
Sanjeev Goyal |
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| Aiming for Moral Mediocrity |
In this talk, Eric Schwitzgebel considers whether it's acceptable to aim for peer-relative mediocrity. |
Eric Schwitzgebel |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2017: Picturing a Nation: (4) Frozen in History: The Arrival of the Kennedys at Love Field |
Professor David Lubin gives his final Terra Lecture in American Art on the Kennedys. |
David M. Lubin |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2017: Picturing a Nation: (3) The Ashcan Goes to War: George Bellows, Belligerence, and the Rape of Belgium |
Professor David Lubin gives his third Terra Lecture in American Art on painter George Bellows. |
David M. Lubin |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2017: Picturing a Nation: (2) Buried Treasure: America’s Great Book Illustrator Howard Pyle and the Silver Screen |
Professor David Lubin gives his second Terra Lecture in American Art on Howard Pyle’s illustrations of Robin Hood and pirates and their representation in movies. |
David M. Lubin |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2017: Picturing a Nation: (1) Riding into History, Marching into Oblivion: The Civil War, Racial Justice, and the Shaw Memorial |
Professor David Lubin gives his first Terra Lecture in American Art on the Shaw Memorial in Boston. |
David M. Lubin |
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| Trumponomics |
The Sanjaya Lall Memorial Trust held a panel discussion to welcome Sanjaya Lall Visiting Fellow Professor Kenneith Rogoff, Harvard University. Other panellists were Martin Wolf CBE of the Financial Times and Professor John Muellbauer of Oxford University. |
John Muellbauer, Martin Wolf, Kenneith Rogoff |
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| Solving the Replication Crisis in Psychology: Insights from History and Philosophy of Science |
In this episode, Brian Earp discusses the 'Reproducibility Project' and questions whether psychology is in crisis or not. |
Brian Earp |
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| Observation of the mergers of binary black holes: The opening of gravitational wave astronomy |
The 2017 Halley Lecture 7th June 2017 delivered by Professor Rainer Weiss, MIT on behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration |
Rainer Weiss |
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| Ghost Imaging with Quantum Light |
Physics Colloquium 26th May 2017 delivered by Professor Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow |
Miles Padgett |
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| Pulsars and Extreme Physics - A 50th Anniversary |
Physics Colloquium 5th May 2017 delivered by Dame Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
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| Starquakes Expose Stellar Heartbeats |
The 14th Hintze Biannual Lecture 4th May 2017 delivered by Professor Conny Aerts - Director, Institute of Astronomy KU Leuven |
Connie Aerts |
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| Strachey Lecture: Computer Agents that Interact Proficiently with People |
Professor Kraus will show how combining machine learning techniques for human modelling, human behavioural models, formal decision-making and game theory approaches enables agents to interact well with people. |
Sarit Kraus |
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| Nuclear Fusion |
Aled Walker, Justin Ball, Valerian Chen, Jason Parisi discuss nuclear fusion as part of the In Our Spare Time series. |
Aled Walker, Justin Ball, Valerian Chen, Jason Parisi |
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| On the origin and nature of values |
One of the world's leading theorist in Cosmology, Professor Ellis delivers the 2017 Tanner Lecture on Human Values |
George Ellis |
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| Murder or a Legitimate Medical Procedure: the Withdrawal of Artificial Nutrition & Fluids from a Patient in a Persistent Vegetative Condition |
In this talk, Professor John Paris asks "What is the historical meaning of "ordinary means" to sustain human life? And what has been the understanding for over 500 years of Catholic moral analysis of the obligation to sustain life?" |
Fr. John Paris |
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| Adam Smith, Poverty and Famine |
A highly critical account of Adam Smith's views on famine, which fail to recognize that you can have starvation in the midst of plenty. |
David Wootton |
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| The Sound of Symmetry - Marcus du Sautoy |
Symmetry has played a role both for composers and in the creation of musical instruments. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
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| The Butterfly Effect - What Does it Really Signify? - Tim Palmer |
Tim Palmer discusses Ed Lorenz the man and his work, and compares and contrasts the meaning of the 'Butterfly Effect' as most people understand it today, and as Lorenz himself intended it to mean. |
Tim Palmer |
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| Curiosity’s Search for Ancient Habitable Environments at Gale Crater, Mars |
4th Annual Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology delivered by Professor John Grotzinger, Caltech, USA |
John Grotzinger |
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| Spatio-temporal Optical Vortices |
Physics Colloquium 10th March 2017 delivered by Professor Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland, USA |
Howard Milchberg |
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| Learning new physics from a medieval thinker: Big Bangs and Rainbows |
Physics Colloquium 24 February 2017 delivered by Professor Tom McLeish FRS, Department of Physics and Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University, UK |
Tom McLeish |
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| The applied side of Bell nonlocality |
Physics Colloquium 17 February 2016 delivered by Professor Valerio Scarani |
Valerio Scarani |
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| Better evidence for better healthcare manifesto |
The integration of evidence with clinical expertise and patient values which underpins the delivery of high quality evidence-based medicine. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Moving Beyond Punitivism: Anthropological Engagements with Punishment and State Failure |
Insa Koch, LSE - 19 Jan 2017 |
Insa Koch |
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| Exploring the Long Term Effects of 'Thatcherite' Social and Economic Policies for Crime |
Stephen Farrall, University of Sheffield - 02 Feb 2017 |
Stephen Farrall |
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| Crime, Order and the Two Faces of Conservatism |
Ian Loader, University of Oxford - 10 Nov 2016 |
Ian Loader |
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| The Problems of Long-term Imprisonment |
Ben Crewe, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge - 6 October 2016 |
Ben Crewe |
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| The Beauty of Flavour - Latest results from the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider |
Physics Colloquium 3 February 2017 delivered by Professor Val Gibson, Cambridge |
Val Gibson |
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| From Materials to Cosmology: Studying the early universe under the microscope |
Physics Colloquium 27 January 2017 delivered by Professor Nicola Spaldin, ETH Zurich |
Nicola Spaldin |
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| The Ontology of Autonomy for Autonomous Weapons Systems |
Dr Heather Roff discusses the role of autonomous weapons systems within the international community. She provides a theoretical framework for defining and classifying these systems, examining the diplomatic and moral concerns that they pose. |
Heather Roff |
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| Technology and the Rise of Boundless Warfare |
Professor David Galbreath gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series. |
David Galbreath |
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| Social Pluralism Religious Cleansing and Hybrid Warfare in Syria |
Since the ‘Arab Spring’ uprising of 2011, the United States and a network of European and regional Sunni allies have applied instruments of coercion against Syria that collectively take on the character of ‘hybrid warfare’. |
John Eibner |
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| The Lure of Paris: The Republic of Letters and Eighteenth-Century Speed-Dating |
Final talk of the Besterman Enlightenment Workshop 2017, Laurence Brockliss explains the popularity of Paris as a place to visit in the 18th century and explores the opportunities for and obstacles to making contacts in the European Republic of Letters. |
Laurence Brockliss |
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| Dementia, future treatments and research |
Prof. Klaus Ebmeier is the Foundation Chair of Old Age Psychiatry. In this interview he gives his point of view on dementia, normal aging and why new treatments are not yet effective. |
Klaus Ebmeier |
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| Language, Mobility and Belonging |
A new episode of of in our spare time, this time looking at the social aspects of language. |
Aled Walker, Rosemary Hall, Nancy Hawker, Leonie Schulte, Kinga Kozminska |
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| Strachey Lecture: Probabilistic machine learning: foundations and frontiers |
Professor Zoubin Ghahramani gives a talk on probabilistic modelling from it's foundations to current areas of research at the frontiers of machine learning. |
Zoubin Ghahramani |
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| Why is it so difficult to implement Evidence Based Healthcare? |
Richard Gleave, Public Health England and Professor Sue Dopson, Said Business School give a talk for the Green Templeton Lectures 2017: Delivering Health: Clinical, Management and Policy Challenges. |
Richard Gleave, Sue Dopson |
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| The Future of Particle Physics Panel Discussion |
Panel discussion with Prof John Womersley (STFC), Prof John Wheater (Department of Physics), Prof Ian Shipsey (Particle Physics), Prof Dave Wark (Particle Physics), Prof Daniella Bortoletto (Physics) and Prof Subir Sarkar (Particle Theory Group) |
John Womersley, John Wheater, Ian Shipsey, Dave Wark, Daniella Bortoletto, Subir Sarkar |
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| The Future of Particle Physics: The Particle Physics Christmas Lecture |
Professor John Womersley (STFC) gives the Particle Physics Christmas Lecture. |
John Womersley |
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| The shock of the new: cultural amnesia, trans erasure, and what we can do about it |
Activist and author CN Lester talks about the need for queer/trans history in a world that too often forgets that variations in gender and desire have always been with us. |
CN Lester |
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| Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit |
Lecture with Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College). Respondent: Anand Menon (King’s College London) Convenors: Timothy Garton Ash and Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College). |
Kalypso Nicolaidis, Anand Menon, Timothy Garton Ash |
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| Imaginary Invalids? Euro-Atlantic Populisms and the Crisis of Democracy |
Richard von Weizsåcker Lecture with Paul Nolte (Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow St Antony’s College), the chair is Paul Betts (St Antony's College). |
Paul Nolte |
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| A new politics of globalization? Taking stock of what 2016 brought Europe and America |
ESC Lunchtime Seminar. A talk given by Robert Howse (NYU Law School), Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College)on 13th January 2017. |
Robert Howse |
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| Statistics: Why the Truth Matters - Tim Harford |
Tim Harford, Financial Times columnist and presenter of Radio 4's "More or Less", argues that politicians, businesses and even charities have been poisoning the value of statistics and data. |
Tim Harford |
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| The Microbiome and the Brain |
An interview with Professor Phil Burnet, who discusses his research into the influence of the gut microbiome on brain health. He talks about novel findings, potential future work, and takes questions from trainee psychiatrists and researchers. |
Phil Burnet |
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| Rethinking the epidemic of overdiagnosis |
Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of "disease" that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's lifetime. Newer, more accurate technologies, and the desire to detect disease even earlier means Overdiagnosis is on the rise. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Criminology |
Oxford graduate students discuss Criminology, and the societal affects of real-life crime documentaries. |
Aled Walker, Kate Evans, Liz Kullmann, Jess Jo |
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| Évariste Galois |
Oxford graduate students discuss the life and work of 19th century French mathematical prodigy Évariste Galois |
Aled Walker, Chris Nicholls, Benjamin Green. |
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| Resuscitating poor quality research |
Healthcare research is all too often plagued by biases that are rooted in poor methods, leading to the wrong result and conclusions and preventing uptake into practice. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| The Mathematics of Visual Illusions - Ian Stewart |
Puzzling things happen in human perception when ambiguous or incomplete information is presented to the eyes. |
Ian Stewart |
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| Militant Jihadi Culture: Poetry as a Weapon |
The power of poetry to move Arab listeners and readers emotionally, to infiltrate the psyche and to create an aura of authenticity around the ideologies it enshrines, make it a perfect weapon for militant jihadist causes. |
Elisabeth Kendall |
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| What we are missing about the Missing; searching for the disappeared victims of armed conflict |
One of the aspects of the changing character of war is an increased awareness of and attention to those who go missing due to armed conflict. |
Derek Congram |
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| Strategy Evolves from apes to Artificial Intelligence |
Kenneth Payne explores the evolutionary basis of strategic behaviour, and assesses the impact of non-biological intelligence on the future of warfare. From chimpanzees to computers, via a dose of Clausewitz: hopefully something for everyone. |
Kenneth Payne |
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| Clytemenstra |
Host Alice Harberd discusses Clytemnestra, a fascinating character from Greek Tragedy, with Emily Clifford and Lily Aaronovitch. |
Alice Harberd, Emily Clifford, Lily Aaronovitch |
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| Astronomy at the Highest Energies: Exploring the Extreme Universe with Gamma Rays |
Physics Colloquium 25 November 2016 delivered by Dr Jamie Holder |
Jamie Holder |
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